Reading/Writing Formatted Text

[Steven Smith]

I'm trying to read a file with formatted text (tabbing etc.), then writing it to a new file. However, the formatting is getting lost to the new file. What should I do?
What I tried:
FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outfile);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(infile));
String tmpstr = "";
while((tmpstr = br.readLine()) != null) {
out.write(tmpstr);
}

[Edwin Dalorzo]

You shoud write the tabs

FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outfile);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(infile));
String tmpstr = "";
while((tmpstr = br.readLine()) != null) {
   out.write(tmpstr);
   out.write("\t");
}

[Stan James]

You're using readln() which "eats" the newline off the end of each line. Try writing the newLine() method after writing each line. Also see how you like PrintWriter which has println().

[Steven Smith]

Thank you all for your help! Just wondering though if there are any methods that will automatically read/write the '\r', '\n', '\t', etc. The problem is, I can't visibly see these in the input file. I only know they are there because the output file formatting is all "out of whack".
[ September 28, 2006: Message edited by: Steven Smith ]

[Stan James]

If you read lines you're pretty much asking to remove newlines. You can pass everything from input to output if you use bytes and streams instead of Strings and reader & writer.